Email Functions

Description

Alpha Anywhere provides the following email functions for using Alpha Anywhere's built-in email program.

Name: Description
a5_email_addr_extract Function: Extract an email address from a string
A5_EMAIL_FILTER_BUILDER Function: Display a filter builder dialog for e-mail messages. Return filter
a5_email_name_extract Function: Given a name/email address, extract the name. If there is no name, return the address
a5_email_ob_to_ib Function: Import an Alpha Five v5 outbox into an Alpha Five v6 inbox
A5_EMAIL_PROFILES_ENUM Function: The A5_EMAIL_PROFILES_ENUM() function returns a list of all email profiles.
A5_EMAIL_VALID Function: This function has been deprecated. A5_IS_EMAIL_VALID() should be used as a replacement. The A5_EMAIL_VALID() function determines if an email address is properly formatted. It does not validate the address itself.
a5_get_saved_email Function: Retrieves the contents of an email message that was saved in an Alpha Five dictionary. If the dictionary_name is blank, then current table/set dictionary is assumed.
A5_IS_EMAIL_VALID Function: The A5_IS_EMAIL_VALID() function reports whether email addresses are properly formatted. Multiple email addresses should be separated by commas or semicolons.
A5_RUN_NETMAILER_JOB Function: The A5_RUN_NETMAILER_JOB() function runs a Netmailer job, optionally hiding the user interface.
A5_RUN_SAVED_ZIP_JOB Function: The A5_RUN_SAVED_ZIP_JOB() function runs a saved Zip job. Zip settings are created using the Zip Workspace dialog box (accessed from the Tools > Zip Workspace or Tools > Send Workspace command).
a5_savetowebappemailoutbox Function: Used in a Web application to save an e-mail to the e-mail outbox
a5_showemailsettings Function: Display the settings for the email_send_noprofile() function.
EMAIL_CLIENT Function: Display the Alpha Anywhere e-mail client.
email_client_auto Function: Load the appropriate email client specified in the email profile.
EMAIL_CLIENT_EXTERNAL Function: Display the default external e-mail client. Maximum of 100 recipients.
EMAIL_GET_ACTIVE Function: Returns the name of the active email profile
EMAIL_GET_FIELD Function: The EMAIL_GET_FIELD() function returns a field from the header of an email message.
EMAIL_POP_CLOSE Function: The EMAIL_POP_CLOSE() function attempts to gracefully close a connection with a POP3 server.
EMAIL_POP_HEADERS Function: The EMAIL_POP_HEADERS() function returns only the header for message number nMessage. pSocket must be an active structure created with EMAIL_POP_OPEN().
EMAIL_POP_LIST Function: The EMAIL_POP_LIST() function returns an array ( pList.bytes ) containing byte counts for each message on the server. The array index is equal to the message id on the server.
EMAIL_POP_OPEN Function: The EMAIL_POP_OPEN() function opens a connection to a POP3 server and logs in.
EMAIL_POP_RETR Function: The EMAIL_POP_RETR() function retrieves a single message from a POP3 server. The connection must have been previously opened with EMAIL_POP_OPEN(). , i.e. the pSocket.s must be an open connection
EMAIL_POP_RETR_UI Function: The EMAIL_POP_RETR_UI() function displays the Download Email dialog box and returns a count of messages on your email server that match your filter specifications.
email_profile_add Function: Add an email profile.
email_profile_delete Function: Delete an email profile.
EMAIL_PROFILE_LOAD Function: The EMAIL_PROFILE_LOAD() function loads the named profile into the Profile dot variable.
EMAIL_PROFILE_SAVE Function: Write an email profile to the registry. The EMAIL_PROFILE_SAVE() function saves an email profile to the Windows registry.
EMAIL_PROFILE_VALID Function: The EMAIL_PROFILE_VALID() function checks the specified email profile and returns TRUE (.T.) if it has all necessary information; otherwise, it returns FALSE (.F.).
EMAIL_READER_OPEN Function: The EMAIL_READER_OPEN() function opens the Email Reader program.
EMAIL_RECEIVE Function: Receive email messages using Alpha Anywhere's built-in e-mail facility.
EMAIL_SAVE_ATTACH Function: The EMAIL_SAVE_ATTACH() function saves the attachments stored in a message downloaded with EMAIL_POP_RETR() and returns a list of filenames saved to disk.
EMAIL_SELECT_PROFILE Function: The EMAIL_SELECT_PROFILE() function opens a dialog box with a list of all profiles and allows the user to select one. The dialog also has an option to set the selected profile as the active profile.
EMAIL_SEND Function: Sends an e-mail using the built-in, Alpha Anywhere e-mail feature. Set text_type to "html" for HTML email. If lSilent = .T., email_send will throw an error rather than show a message box.
EMAIL_SEND2 Function: Send an email message
email_send_gmail Function: Send email using the Gmail SMTP server.
Email_send_low Function: Send an email message without using a pre-configured email profile.
email_send_mandrill Function: Sends an email message using the Mandrill mail delivery service. The minimum set of properties in a dot variable to pass in are: .send_to, .message_html, .subject, .from_email
email_send_noprofile Function: Sends an e-mail message. All e-mail settings are passed in. Does not use an Alpha Anywhere e-mail profile.
email_send_sendgrid Function: Sends an email using the SendGrid service.
email_send_sparkpost Function: Send an email using the SparkPost service.
email_send_web Function: Sends an email using either the internal SMTP server or SparkPost using the settings defined in Web Project Properties.
EMAIL_SET_ACTIVE Function: Set active email profile. The EMAIL_SET_ACTIVE() function sets Profile_Name to be the active profile.
EMAIL_SMTP_CLOSE Function: The EMAIL_SMTP_CLOSE() function closes a connection with an SMTP email server.
EMAIL_SMTP_OPEN Function: The EMAIL_SMTP_OPEN() function opens a connection with a SMTP server. This function, along with EMAIL_SMTP_SEND() and EMAIL_SMTP_CLOSE(), will allow you to send email from a computer that does not have an Alpha Anywhere email profile.
EMAIL_SMTP_SEND Function: The EMAIL_SMTP_SEND() function sends a message through a SMTP mail server. This function, along with EMAIL_SMTP_OPEN()and EMAIL_SMTP_CLOSE(), will allow you to send email from a computer that does not have an Alpha Anywhere email profile.
emailsendcdo Function: Use the Microsoft CDO ActiveX object to send e-mail rather than the Alpha Anywhere's' built-in socket object.
SYS_RESOLVE_URL Function: Link to a URL (mailto:,http:,ftp: etc).